Private Jack Ford

Army Number: 28254

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of John and Emily Ford, of 61, Peartree Street, Derby. Went to France on 15th December 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 17, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.